Power juicer

Abstract

A power juicer including a motor driven rotor formed of nylon and having a plurality of stainless steel saw blades cast into the nylon and extending radially outwardly therefrom to serve as cutters. A screened opening is positioned beneath the cutters for permitting the juice to pass therethrough. A screw threaded front unloading attachment is secured to the rotor for feeding the pulp and other solids to a disposal sack attached to the end of the juicer body. The front unloading attachments are interchangeable and have 1/4, 1/2 and 3/4 turns on the screw threads thereof.

What is claimed is: 
     
       1. As a new article of manufacture, a power juicer embodying a body having a hollow formation, an electric motor detachably connected to said body, a motor shaft projecting into said body, a hopper mounted on said body, there being an opening on the underside of said body and said opening having a generally rectangular formation, a screen of semicylindrical formation for covering said opening, said screen including a rectangular frame surrounding said opening, a spout detachably affixed to said body and underlying said opening, a pair of shoulders on said spout engaging said frame, a nozzle integrally formed on the end of the body opposite said motor and said nozzle having a conical taper, a rotor of generally cylindrical formation mounted on said shaft within said hollow body, said rotor having an axial bore that terminates in a socket of generally conical formation, a bushing of generally cylindrical formation provided with a conical extension at one end thereof that is seated in the bore in said rotor, said bushing being provided with a bore for receiving the shaft of the motor, a plurality of semicylindrical recesses formed in the outer circumference of said rotor and extending from substantially midway of the length thereof to the end having the conical socket formed therein, a first plurality of cutter blades projecting from the inner end of the rotor along the surface of the rotor parallel to its axis, said blades being molded into the surface of the rotor and being rigidly mounted therein, a plurality of second cutter blades mounted in the surface of the rotor and said second blades having a length somewhat shorter than the first blades, said rotor being provided with a conical extension on the end thereof opposite the motor, and wherein the largest diameter of the conical extension is substantially smaller than the external diameter of the rotor to provide a shoulder between the rotor and the extension, a plurality of bores opening inwardly of said last named shoulder and projecting parallel to the axis of the rotor, said extension having a threaded axial bore formed therein, a screw threaded unloading attachment embodying a pulp unloading auger having a conical socket for engaging over the conical extension, there being an axial bore extending from the conical socket through the outer end of the unloading auger, said auger having screw thread lands formed thereon, and a plurality of pins on the inner end of the auger engaging in the bores for preventing relative rotation between the auger and said rotor.